Abstract: A garment for providing access to feeding tubes while the garment is being worn by a patient/individual. The garment includes a centralized access opening that is closable for portions of time and that provide access to a feeding tube or feeding tube mechanism that has been surgically implemented in a patient. The access opening may be located relatively central to the garment and can illustratively include additional fasteners that can secure a portion of the feeding tube to the garment.

Abstract: A fabric having an improved winding property, and more particularly to a fabric having an improved winding property, which simultaneously has an excellent winding property and excellent mechanical properties and exhibits an effect of preventing dye migration in fabric coating, and a commodity including the same.

Abstract: Wraps that provide heat and flame resistant properties to a portable radio, a remote speaker microphone (RSM), and a cord therebetween have an elongate body having a head and a tail, opposing first and second major surfaces that each have first and second elongate edges, and first and second elongate sides. The elongate body is made of flame and heat resistant fabric and has first fasteners positioned as a releasably mateable pair when the first and second elongate sides meet or overlap in a wrapped positioned. The head defines an opening therethrough positioned for alignment with a voice amplifier of a RSM when the wrap is in a wrapped position around the RSM. A wrap may be and independent article or it may be sewn to a firefighter turnout coat on a front boy section proximate a neck section of the coat.

Abstract: A firefighting water garment consists of a reinforced cotton fabric with combing manufactured through weaving of doubled yarn with loose end with an area weight approximately 346 g/m2 which is able to absorb up to six-times more liquid than it weights. The fabric is soaked with a water solution that consists of 50% of water, at least, of 2.7 to 50% of extinguishing agent and of 1 to 10% of a component reflecting heat radiation. Another necessary component is powder titanium dioxide which reflects heat radiation perfectly. Evaporation of water from the suit occurs under presence of fire, and the water starts to cool surface of the fabric and thus prevents overheating of the organism. This way marked extension of time for suit exposure in the fire and prevention of rise of dangerous burns on skin is achieved.

Abstract: A method includes drawing each multiple partially oriented polyester yarn from a corresponding supply package to form an oriented polyester yarn as a single multi-filament polyester weft yarn, inserting the multi-filament polyester weft yarn during a single pick insertion event of a pick insertion apparatus of a loom apparatus through winding the multi-filament polyester weft yarn on a single-pick yarn package, and conveying at least two of the multi-filament polyester weft yarn across a warp shed of the loom apparatus through a set of warp yarns in the single pick insertion event to form an incremental length of a woven textile fabric having a first surface with a majority of ends of the warp yarns and a second surface with a majority of picks of the multi-filament polyester weft yarn thereon. The method also includes solely abrading the second surface to provide for comfort to a user during contact therewith.

Abstract: A lower body outer garment, such as a pant or legging, is provided which has a construction and hidden support which helps to redefine the wearer's appearance. The support is in one embodiment provided in the form of internal mesh re-enforcing panels that lift the buttocks and flatten the tummy. The invention also relates to twill or denim fabric versions of the lower garment, and includes the front and rear power control panels having strategic hem placement to avoid cutting into fleshy areas on the wearer or to lift and sculpt both the front and backside of the wearer.

Abstract: A medical, in particular orthopaedic, aid (1, 1?, 1?), such as for example an orthosis (1), bandage (1?) or compressive item of clothing (1?), consisting of at least one base body (2, 2?, 2?) of at least one elastic and/or non-elastic textile material (3, 3?, 3?), which is designed for the supporting of tissue and/or parts of the body of a patient, wherein the at least one textile material (3, 3?, 3?) of the base body (2, 2?, 2?) is designed at least partially to be substantially transmissible with respect to UV radiation.

Abstract: A circular loom for weaving a weaving core with at least one shuttle, which has a weft thread spool and is movable along a circular orbit path around the weaving core. At least one guide device, designed to guide at least one warp thread provided from a warp thread spool on a warp spool device, is movably arranged or designed outside a track plane enclosed by the outer circumference of the circular orbit path, the guided warp thread, crossing the track plane, passing through a recess in the circular orbit path.

Abstract: Dynamic collar stays that are configured to change lengths on multiple axis, and have multiple hinges.

Abstract: In order to improve the design of a ribbon needle loom for applications in which the woven material (9) shall have a variable width, it is proposed to arrange the weft needle (10, 16) and also the knitting needle (10b, 16b) serving to knit the weft thread (14, 15) at the side directed away from the weft insertion onto a common, displaceable carrier (10c, 16c). As a further improvement, in order to be able to produce symmetrical woven material (9) with such a ribbon needle loom, a bilateral weft-insertion is proposed, wherein the two weft needles (10, 16) and the two knitting needles (10b, 16b) by means of which the respective weft thread (14, 15) is knitted at the side directed away from the weft insertion are each disposed on a common, displaceable carrier (10c, 16c). Advantageously, the carriers (10c, 16c) do not hinder each other upon displacement, but rather are arranged on top of each other.

Abstract: A garment including: fabric configured to conform to a body portion of a wearer; at least one front-transverse segmental marker visible on a front exterior surface of the garment in use and extending parallel to a transverse axis of the body portion; at least one rear-transverse segmental marker visible on a rear exterior surface of the garment in use and extending parallel to the transverse axis of the body portion; at least one front-longitudinal segmental marker visible on a front exterior surface of the garment in use and extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the body portion; at least one rear-longitudinal segmental marker visible on a rear exterior surface of the garment in use and extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body portion; and at least one side-longitudinal segmental marker visible on each side exterior surface of the garment in use and extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a yarn tensioning system for keeping at least one yarn, which is taken from a yarn storage system to a yarn take-off system of a weaving machine, under tension. The system includes a brake roller around which the yarn is at least partially wound, and a motor for supplying a torque to the brake roller, the motor being actuable in generator operation to keep the yarn under tension between the brake roller and the yarn take-off system. Also disclosed is a weaving machine including such a yarn tensioning system, as well as a method for keeping at least one yarn under tension, the at least one yarn being taken from a yarn storage system to a yarn take-off system.

Abstract: A reversible belt having an elongated strap having top and bottom surfaces, and two rows of notches on the top surface of the strap, and two rows of notches on the bottom surface of the strap. The buckle having teeth for engaging the rows of notches on the top surface of the strap, and for engaging the rows of notches on the bottom surface of the strap, when the strap is reversed.

Abstract: A shoulder pad assembly has main body cushions consisting of a plurality of different types of foam material joined together to result in a hybrid pad structure constructed from slow-response foam and open-cell foam. A main body cushion is constructed from a first sheet or panel of slow-response foam disposed over the torso of the wearer, a second sheet or panel of slow-response foam disposed over the back of the wearer, joined together by a third sheet or panel of open-cell foam positioned between the first sheet and second sheet, disposed over the wearer's shoulder. Optionally, a fourth sheet or pad of slow-response foam is disposed on the third sheet, disposed over the wearer's shoulder, preferably at the location that is most likely to suffer blows during football play. Optionally, a fifth sheet or pad of open-cell foam is disposed on the first sheet, on the side of the first sheet in contact with the wearer and a sixth sheet or pad of open-cell foam is disposed on the second sheet.

Abstract: A method for simultaneously weaving, on a face-to-face weaving machine, two pile fabrics each including an area with and without pile. For a pick corresponding to the area without pile, a dead pile thread is placed between the backing fabric and a patterning weft and a dead pile thread is placed opposite the backing fabric with respect to the same patterning weft. An additional fabric is formed in the area without pile by the first and second dead pile threads woven with the patterning wefts, this additional fabric covering the backing fabric.

Abstract: A genital cover for a transgender human which is positioned underneath clothing along the curve of the mons pubis/and or genitals which when worn gives the outward simulated appearance of the protruding bulge and contours of the human male external genitalia to provide the wearer who does not possess external male genitalia the subtle appearance of possessing external male genitalia; the genital cover itself does not resemble explicit external male genitalia when viewed unobstructed by clothing when worn; when worn beneath clothing the genital cover gives the simulated appearance of external male genitalia.

Abstract: A weft withdrawing device of an air jet loom includes a blow nozzle blowing a weft that is ejected from a weft insertion main nozzle and determined to be a weft insertion failure to guide the weft to a weft withdrawing passage, a weft introducing duct that is integrally swingable with a sley forward and backward, a weft withdrawing mechanism withdrawing the weft guided to the weft introducing duct, and a weft sensor optically detecting the weft. The weft withdrawing device of the air jet loom includes a weft guide member. The weft guide member includes a cloth fell side top portion and a let-off side top portion. The cloth fell side top portion is located above the weft withdrawing passage.

Abstract: Clothing articles having one or more pre-defined encapsulation zones, as well as systems and methods of producing such clothing articles. A clothing article is made of a fabric intended to cover a region of a human body of a wearer. The fabric includes at least one encapsulation zone which is surrounded by a surrounding region. The encapsulation zone includes at least a first encapsulation region, which is surrounded by a second encapsulation region, which is surrounded by a third encapsulation region. The first encapsulation region has a first level of elasticity; the second encapsulation region has a second level of elasticity that is smaller than the first level of elasticity of the first encapsulation region; the third encapsulation region has a third level of elasticity that is smaller than the second level of elasticity of the second encapsulation region.

Abstract: An article having a panel secured between two layers of a trim piece and having a pocket affixed to a zipper, where a first zipper tape is affixed to the panel, and a second zipper tape is secured between the two layers of the trim piece such that the pocket is in communication with an incised opening in the panel is provided. The panel may be secured between the two layers of the trim piece at a first edge, and the incised opening may be formed proximate to the first edge such that the article comprises a pocket presented proximate to the trim piece. The present invention further comprises a method of manufacturing the article including a pocket presented proximate to the trim piece.

Abstract: An interwoven material. More particularly, the interwoven material includes a first fabric and a second fabric. The first and second fabric are interwoven. The interwoven material includes a first column of interwoven material, a second column of interwoven material, and a third column of interwoven material. Also, there is a first row of interwoven material, a second row of interwoven material, and a third row of interwoven material. The second fabric is under the first fabric in the first row in the first columns; and the second fabric is over the first fabric in the first row in the second column.